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Support Your Community

IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ: To show your support for a specific community, click on the community page's link under Regional Leaderboard, then hit Donate on that community's page so your donation will appear toward your community's progress to $5,000. [Note: Clicking "Donate" on the main Teach For America New Mexico page will contribute to the overall regional goal of $90k but will not appear on a community's page. Please check the title at the top of the page for which community your donation counts toward.] Feel free to leave comments shouting out your school, community, fellow corps members and alumni!

Regional Leaderboard

Pueblo Pintado - $10,276

Mariano Lake -$6055

Laguna - $4575

Shiprock - $3440

Twin Lakes - $3106

Navajo - $1591

Gallup - $1510

Thoreau - $1491

Crownpoint - $785

Vanderwagen - $777

Tohatchi - $740

Church Rock - $725

Sanders - $350

Standing Rock - $325

Kirtland - $210

Zuni - $185

Borrego Pass - $100

Grants - $61

*Last updated 5/2/2012

Our Region

The American Indian communities in the Four Comers face tremendous challenges – drug and alcohol abuse, persistent unemployment and a huge educational achievement gap – but too often these challenges overshadow their untapped strengths. Our youth are full of potential, and they will seize the opportunity to rise above these challenges if we give it to them.

 

The Need

Since 2001, over 300 Teach For America - New Mexico corps members have impacted nearly 47,000 students in the Four Corners area. Most of the funding used to recruit, select, train, and place these corps members has been raised by Teach For America outside of New Mexico. This year, however, with the loss of Teach For America's federal funding, our region must raise $1.15 million dollars in order to ensure we can bring 50 new corps members to New Mexico and Arizona next year.

 

We Need Your Help

To hit our $1.15 million funding target, we aim to raise $90,000 through small gifts from individual donors. If we do not hit this goal, then we will lose 5 corps members who otherwise could have taught in New Mexico's classrooms. Nearly 300 students would not have the opportunity to have a Teach For America teacher.

 

Please help ensure that Teach For America can bring 45 corps members to New Mexico and Arizona next year by donating to the community of your choice. If each community raises $5,000, then we will hit our goal.

Corps Year Leaderboard

Number of corps members/alumni who donated:

2001 - 2

2002 - 3

2003 - 2

2004 - 1

2005 - 6

2006 - 4

2007 - 7

2008 - 15

2009 - 15

2010 - 17

2011 - 7

*Last updated 5/2/12

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